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From Last week

Twitter and Tumblr accounts

The creator of these has confirmed that they are fake, and have no relation to the website. The Tumblr Account creator intends to restart the story of Ella Deux and Co in a few weeks. You can see all of that on our last blog

Website

This has not been matched by a US or Australian trademark - HOWEVER, Fallout 3 isn't trademarked in either of these jurisdictions (just "Fallout"), suggesting that with the Fallout mark, adding a number is not required in these jurisdictions.

The Website was registered through GoDaddy to Zenimax Media, IT Department. The registration/WHOIS contained the correct corporate information for Zenimax Media. Zenimax Media is the owner of Bethesda Softworks

However, Zenimax Websites are typically registered through CSC Corporate. This doesn’t make it impossible, but unreliable, there is no verification of the registration entere. see the whois information for fallout4garyindiana.com for just how much nonsense can be put in.

This is not without precedent however - Blizzard did use GoDaddy for one of their products

The Website was originally hosted on a Polish Web Sever

This makes little to no sense. Zenimax have no current offices or operations listed in Poland.

The site was then moved to an IP registered to Baltimore, Maryland, operated by ReliableHosting

This allowed the first octet of the sites IP address of the site to match the IP address range owned by Zenimax. However it is still not within the IP Address range owned by Zenimax

Zenimax’s IP address show as being owned by Zenimax, not RelaibleHosting.

Traceroutes suggest that this is held in a different datacente to Zenimax’s other sites

The site does not use the normal Zenimax name servers.

The code contains references to Fallout and Bethesda’s YouTube channel

The code contains numerous errors and inconsistencies that do not suggest a professional job.

The code for the timer contains a link to a Polish Web Developer’s portfolio.

The site contained some morse code, that has been suggested to mean 11-12-13. The countdown timer seems to point to this date as well

Some reddit users have suggested the "owner" of the site works for a company called AKQA, a marketing company who were responsible for the "prepare for the future" Fallout 3 campaign. The names between the supposed owner and the supposed employees are not 100% matches.

The morse message has changed a few times, to include the Oscar Zulu message from Fallout 3.

Nuclear winter is coming. Reserve your future home today! 877-260-2299" Calling the number resulted in the Tranquility Lane theme from Fallout 3 playing, as well as more Morse code.

There is reportedly a message that says nuclear winter is coming, and suggesting a December 1 reveal (however, this does not appear for me).

11/25 would be tomorrow in the US date format. Does this mean we can expect something tomorrow. We will keep you updated tomorrow with round the clock coverage.

From the official side

There have been no tweets from Bethesda on the subject. There have been on other subjects however, including new Fallout merchandise at the online Bethesda store.

With the Exception of the European Trademark for Fallout 4 (which does not prove the validity of this site), anything only Bethesda could do in this campaign, has not been done. The things that have been done could have been done by anyone dedicated enough to do so.

No DMCA Takedown notice, or copyright claim seem to have been filed.

Hypotheses

It's real

It's the work of a Polish web developer to drum up business

It's an elaborate practical joke

We're not calling this confirmed, as we're still short a smoking gun. For everyone who tells me X,Y or Z confirms its true, I have another telling me it confirms the opposite.

We'll have more coverage, as it happens - especially on the 25/11 and when the countdown hits zero. Thanks to Chris The Sayian, Peace n Hugs, and everyone who provides a comment